Perseverance Harbour

{{Short description|Fiord in Campbell Island}}

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Perseverance Harbour, also known as South harbour, is a large indentation in the coast of Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, one of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands. The harbour is a long lateral fissure which reaches the ocean in the island's southeast, and is overlooked by the island's highest point, Mount Honey. The Campbell Island Meteorological Station lies at the western end of the harbour.{{cite book|author=G.P. Glasby|title=Antarctic Sector of the Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCQ0oo073LkC&pg=PA295|accessdate=29 June 2013|date=7 February 1989|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-087089-2|pages=295–}}

On 4 November 1810, the island's discoverer, Captain Frederick Hasselborough (or "Hasselburgh" or "Hasselburg"; there are several spellings), who had returned from Sydney, was drowned in Perseverance Harbour, together with Elizabeth Farr, a young woman born at Norfolk Island, and a 12/13 year old Sydney boy, George Allwright.{{cite book|author=Peter Entwisle|title=Taka: A Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784-1817 : Convict, Sealer, Trader in Human Heads, Otago Settler, New Zealand's First Art Dealer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELYS5ftt7NgC&pg=PA73|accessdate=29 June 2013|year=2005|publisher=Port Daniel Press|isbn=978-0-473-10098-8|pages=73–}}